For business-continuity after disruption or failure, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. For business-process redesign, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. In both cases, we’ll need…
Category: Enterprise architecture
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
A checklist for business-transformations
What’s a key tool to help manage something as wide-ranging and complex as a business-transformation? Answer: a checklist. The following checklist for business-transformations is adapted from one that we use in our own work on transformation. A matching slidedeck with…
A services-checklist for digital-transformation
Digital-transformation is most likely to succeed when it’s based on principles of service-design and service-management. The following transformation-checklist can be applied to all forms and modes of service-delivery – not just IT-based, but any appropriate combinations of people, machines and…
Push or pull? – two views of enterprise
For digital-transformation, what’s the difference between ‘push’ and ‘pull’? And where and how does enterprise-story come into the picture? At first, these questions might seem more about marketing and suchlike than about ‘digital’ as such – yet the reality is…
Making sense of complexity: A reframe for SCAN
What’s a simple way to make sense of complexity? For me, the go-to tool for this is SCAN – a visual-checklist to map out uncertainty and complexity relative to a given moment or given action: SCAN has been around for almost…
Tagged with: complexity, decision-making, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, methodology, SCAN, sense-making
What is enterprise? What is architecture?
What the heck is ‘enterprise-architecture’? Why are there are so many arguments on this, so many conflicting opinions? Perhaps a key clue is in the fact that there is so much argument about this? And that maybe the best way to…
Tagged with: architecture, Business, chaos, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, paradigm, sense-making, taxonomy
RBPEA: How to build a world beyond money
Tom G
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society
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Beyond money. It’s how most of us already run the economics of our own households. It’s how most of us already run most of our day-to-day interactions at work. It’s how perhaps most of us would already aim to interact…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, how-to, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
RBPEA: Why imagine a world beyond money
In the previous two posts in this series on background behind futures for enterprise-architecture (see video), we explored the idea of a focus on value, rather than money, as the anchor for our architectures; and then set out to imagine a world…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
RBPEA: Imagine a world beyond money
Tom G
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After the previous post, we’re left with a question to explore: Does money really make the world go round? Or would our world actually be better without it? Let’s put it to the test… We know already that money doesn’t…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society
RBPEA: A taste for value
Tom G
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As enterprise-architecture expands outward (see video) to a much broader scope and scale (see video), we’ll need a different kind of anchor for the architecture itself: less on means such as IT or money, more on aims, ends and purpose. In short, a…
Tagged with: economics, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, money, no-money economy, paradigm, RBPEA, responsibility, Society, value
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